Because fans don't have a clue which players are actually doing a good job. They vote for name recognition all to often.

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Yet fans are only 1/3 the vote but unfortunately hold the tie breaker. Change the tiebreaker to select media and issues like this will dissipate. But then again, the media does the HOF voting and look at the political mess that is.

Phft... it doesn't matter how he got there. It's a fact of life when fan balloting is involved. If the media picked the participants exclusively, the great players who didn't react well with the media would get slighted...it's always something.

Still, props to Saturday for giving it a shot this year. The guy is a class act. Wish we had his services earlier in his career.